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It is May 2026, and the BigLaw salary scale has not moved for two and a half years.
That sentence would have sounded unthinkable in 2021, when Milbank ignited a comp war that pushed first-year associates from $190,000 to $215,000 in eight weeks. Three years on, Class of 2025 first-years are starting on $225,000 — the same number Milbank put on the board in November 2023. Eighth-years are still on $435,000. Cravath confirmed in its November 18, 2025 bonus memo, in writing, that base salaries would not rise in 2026.
The lockstep is intact. The escalator has stopped.
So when does it start again, we ask – and presumably you want the answer to that so we’ve done our best to pose some on-the-button questions.
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Vault’s 2026-2027 rankings reveal O’Melveny still leads on satisfaction by a hair, Morgan Lewis took the overall crown, and Ropes & Gray jumped 36 spots.
Vault just dropped its 2026-2027 Best Law Firms to Work For rankings, and for anyone watching BigLaw’s talent map, the satisfaction data is the most useful slice on the platter. It tells you, in cold associate-survey numbers, where lawyers are actually happy versus merely well-paid — and right now those two things are diverging at the top end of the market in interesting ways.
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Short Description Founded in Los Angeles in 1890 — at a time when the city had fewer than 50,000 inhabitants and California law was still being written — Gibson Dunn has grown into one of the most powerful and strategically aggressive law firms in the world, and is currently in the middle of one of
